Role Description
POSITION SUMMARY
The Senior Reliability Engineer is essential for ensuring the long-term performance of drug delivery and diagnostic devices in the animal health industry. Our products integrate hardware and software, and test plans include each.
This position will work as an independent contributor in creation of new test methodologies, support of existing test plans, and objective data analysis driving greater reliability for Zoetis products. Their work will take place throughout a product lifecycle and address components, subsystems, and full instruments.
The role is part of an engineering group working toward goals resulting from Quality Control, Engineering and Manufacturing needs. The engineer in this position will often influence the efforts of other team members during a project, though no specific supervisory responsibilities are attached to the role.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Reliability Engineer will:
- Own or assist small-to-large scale reliability tests for one or more projects with overlapping timelines
- Create and complete test plans, analyze data, perform teardown, and assess results to deliver clear findings
- Provide detailed reports in written or verbal format for engineering, biological, and non-technical audiences
- Develop test methodology as needed to provide continuous improvement to the team
- Work to support engineering design, analysis and other technical requirements
- Mentor junior engineers in problem-solving, project management, and reliability planning and analysis
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Required: BS in Engineering (preferred: Electrical, Mechanical, or Biomedical) with 7+ years test engineering experience (3+ of these focused on reliability) in an electro-mechanical device development environment
- Preferred: MS (Electrical, Mechanical, or Biomedical) with 5+ years test engineering (3+ of these focused on reliability) in an electro-mechanical device development environment
TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS
Required:
- Strong skills in critical thinking and problem solving, planning and organizing, decision-making
- Excellent communication skills, influencing and leading, facilitation and teamwork capabilities
- Demonstrated statistics-based data analysis using packages such as Weibull++. JMP, Minitab, Python
- Verifiable knowledge of ALT, HALT, HASS or environmental testing
- Reliability engineering tools: root cause (5 why, Ishikawa diagrams), Weibull prediction, warranty estimates
- Project management through JIRA or other equivalent workflow tools
Preferred:
- Experience supporting review/development of statements of work, schematics, and CAD for new test hardware
- Skillset in CAD packages such as SolidWorks or AutoCAD
- Software development supporting data acquisition
- ASQ CRE or other similar certification
About Zoetis
At Zoetis, our purpose is to nurture the world and humankind by advancing care for animals. As a Fortune 500 company and the world leader in animal health, we discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and other technologies for companion animals and livestock. We know our people drive our success. Our award-winning culture, built around our Core Beliefs, focuses on our colleagues' careers, connection and support. We offer competitive healthcare and retirement savings benefits, along with an array of benefits, policies and programs to support employee well-being in every sense, from health and financial wellness to family and lifestyle resources.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Connected to our purpose and Core Beliefs, at Zoetis, we lead with inclusion. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) focus helps create an environment where each colleague can thrive. Our commitment to DE&I begins with our leadership team of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ethnicities, and it is demonstrated in our support of our colleagues and the animal health industry. We have nine colleague resources groups whose members spread awareness, foster inclusivity and make a positive impact on our business and communities.
Our commitment to advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has earned us recognitions as a 2024 Catalyst Award recipient and a Top 50 Company for Workplace Fairness by Fair360 (formerly DiversityInc). Zoetis has also been named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality, a Best Company for Working Parents, a Top Company for Executive Women, among many others. Learn more here.
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